The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.

Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.

Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.

Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.

Happiness is reverence for all life.

Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief.

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.

You don´t need a stage to prove that you´re a bad speaker.

Time is the wealth through which everything comes into existence.

Life is to short to worry about everything.

Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky. What he thought of as the sky was the horizon, usually broken by trees and hedges.

It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.

The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.

A horse doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track.

It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.

Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea.

My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend — big mistake. Now I’m single, so London should be really good. I’m excited.